72 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Miss Islington (bot)	fc3b8437c8	bpo-25735: math.factorial doc should mention integer return type (GH-6420) ... (cherry picked from commit 4612671df2) Co-authored-by: Akshay Sharma <akshay.sharma09695@gmail.com>	2019-05-31 09:58:27 -07:00
Miss Islington (bot)	740a7cde9c	bpo-36908: 'This module is always available' isn't helpful. (GH-13297) ... Makes the documentation of math and cmath module more helpful for the beginners. (cherry picked from commit 6faad355db) Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>	2019-05-17 14:08:21 -07:00
Miss Islington (bot)	f34e0d60e2	bpo-26701: Add documentation for __trunc__ (GH-6049) ... `int` fails back to `__trunc__` is `__int__` isn't defined, so cover that in the docs. (cherry picked from commit 308eab979d) Co-authored-by: Eric Appelt <eric.appelt@gmail.com>	2018-03-11 01:10:32 +10:00
Sanyam Khurana	338cd83c5d	bpo-25910: Link redirections in docs (#1933) ... Fixes some redirection links in docs.	2018-01-20 01:25:37 +01:00
Serhiy Storchaka	dbaf746b6d	bpo-29956: Improve the math.exp() related documentation. (#1073)	2017-05-04 12:25:09 +03:00
Mark Dickinson	a0ce375e10	bpo-29962: add math.remainder (#950) ... * Implement math.remainder. * Fix markup for arguments; use double spaces after period. * Mark up function reference in what's new entry. * Add comment explaining the calculation in the final branch. * Fix out-of-order entry in whatsnew. * Add comment explaining why it's good enough to compare m with c, in spite of possible rounding error.	2017-04-05 18:34:27 +01:00
Mark Dickinson	734125938d	Fix misleading documentation for math.exp. (#951)	2017-04-02 08:30:04 -07:00
Mark Dickinson	5e65cd39df	Issue #29282: Backed out changeset b33012ef1417	2017-01-21 13:10:52 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	d1b230e48b	Issue #29282: add fused multiply-add function, math.fma.	2017-01-21 12:35:30 +00:00
Georg Brandl	4770d6ec76	Add versionadded tags for (c)math.tau.	2016-08-16 07:08:46 +02:00
Guido van Rossum	0a891d70de	Issue #12345: Add mathemathcal constant tau to math and cmath. ... Patch by Lisa Roach. See also PEP 628.	2016-08-15 09:12:52 -07:00
Terry Jan Reedy	fa089b9b0b	Issue #22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. ... Reformat header above separator line (added if missing) to a common format. Patch by Yoni Lavi.	2016-06-11 15:02:54 -04:00
Georg Brandl	5d94134040	Closes #25910: fix dead and permanently redirected links in the docs. Thanks to SilentGhost for the patch.	2016-02-26 19:37:12 +01:00
Tal Einat	d5519ed7f4	Issue #19543: Implementation of isclose as per PEP 485 ... For details, see: PEP 0485 -- A Function for testing approximate equality Functions added: math.isclose() and cmath.isclose(). Original code by Chris Barker. Patch by Tal Einat.	2015-05-31 22:05:00 +03:00
Benjamin Peterson	276e9c841d	merge 3.4	2015-05-12 19:16:20 -04:00
Benjamin Peterson	19a3f17cb3	use imperative	2015-05-12 19:15:53 -04:00
Benjamin Peterson	e960d18bb2	versionadded	2015-05-12 17:24:17 -04:00
Serhiy Storchaka	48e47aaa28	Issue #22486: Added the math.gcd() function. The fractions.gcd() function now is ... deprecated. Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.	2015-05-13 00:19:51 +03:00
Mark Dickinson	a5d0c7c2fd	Issue #23185: add math.inf and math.nan constants.	2015-01-11 11:55:29 +00:00
Larry Hastings	3732ed2414	Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.	2014-03-15 21:13:56 -07:00
Andrew Kuchling	3137885c36	#12211: remove paragraph about NaNs	2014-02-16 12:09:35 -05:00
Andrew Kuchling	8cb1ec3274	#12211: clarify math.copysign() documentation and docstring	2014-02-16 11:11:25 -05:00
Serhiy Storchaka	bfdcd436f0	Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.	2013-10-13 23:09:14 +03:00
Ezio Melotti	cc5ea62e48	#15438: merge with 3.2.	2013-02-23 04:55:24 +02:00
Ezio Melotti	739d5497c0	#15438: add a note to math.pow() that suggests using **/pow() for integers. Patch by Mark Dickinson.	2013-02-23 04:53:44 +02:00
Łukasz Langa	37bfa238da	math.fsum docs did not show up because of a misplaced testsetup directive ... (merged 3.2 fix)	2013-01-18 13:41:14 +01:00
Łukasz Langa	288234fe0e	math.fsum docs did not show up because of a misplaced testsetup directive	2013-01-18 13:40:43 +01:00
Ezio Melotti	5a4b03dd82	#16154: merge with 3.2.	2013-01-11 09:12:28 +02:00
Ezio Melotti	405079213b	#16154: fix some doctests in Doc/library. Patch by Ravi Sinha.	2013-01-11 09:09:07 +02:00
Victor Stinner	9415afcce1	meth.log2 doc: add a link to int.bit_length()	2011-09-21 03:35:18 +02:00
Benjamin Peterson	eaee1385a0	note the point of having log2	2011-05-08 19:48:08 -05:00
Victor Stinner	fa0e3d52d6	Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark ... Dickinson.	2011-05-09 01:01:09 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger	12e6c256ca	Fix markup and wording.	2011-03-31 13:59:24 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger	1081d48889	Add links to make the math docs more usable.	2011-03-31 12:04:53 -07:00
Mark Dickinson	c762242cca	Include versionadded in (c)math.isfinite docs (thanks Ezio Melotti). Other minor doc cleanups.	2010-07-11 19:47:37 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	8e0c996873	Issue #9165: Add math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite.	2010-07-11 17:38:24 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	08bf91c041	Merged revisions 79307,79408,79430,79533,79542,79579-79580,79585-79587,79607-79608,79622,79717,79820,79822,79828,79862,79875,79923-79924,79941-79943,79945,79947,79951-79952 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79307 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-22 17:45:50 -0500 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 2 lines #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths. ........ r79408 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-24 20:18:38 -0500 (Wed, 24 Mar 2010) | 2 lines Fix a gcc warning introduced by r79397. ........ r79430 | brian.curtin | 2010-03-25 18:48:54 -0500 (Thu, 25 Mar 2010) | 2 lines Fix #6538. Markup RegexObject and MatchObject as classes. Patch by Ryan Arana. ........ r79533 | barry.warsaw | 2010-03-31 16:07:16 -0500 (Wed, 31 Mar 2010) | 6 lines - Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by Piotr O?\197?\188arowski). ........ r79542 | r.david.murray | 2010-03-31 20:28:39 -0500 (Wed, 31 Mar 2010) | 3 lines A couple small grammar fixes in test.rst, and rewrite the check_warnings docs to be clearer. ........ r79579 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-02 03:34:41 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add 2.6.5. ........ r79580 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-02 03:39:09 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line #2768: add a note on how to get a file descriptor. ........ r79585 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-02 04:03:18 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line Remove col-spanning cells in logging docs. ........ r79586 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-02 04:07:42 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line Document PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx(). ........ r79587 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-02 04:11:49 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line #8012: clarification in generator glossary entry. ........ r79607 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-02 12:48:23 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line #6647: document that catch_warnings is not thread-safe ........ r79608 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-02 12:54:26 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line #6647: add note to two examples ........ r79622 | tarek.ziade | 2010-04-02 16:34:19 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line removed documentation on code that was reverted and pushed into distutils2 ........ r79717 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-03 16:22:38 -0500 (Sat, 03 Apr 2010) | 4 lines Fix wording / typography, and a slightly misleading statement (memoryviews don't support complex structures right now) ........ r79820 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-05 22:34:09 -0500 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) | 1 line ready _sre types ........ r79822 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-06 03:18:15 -0500 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line #8320: document return value of recv_into(). ........ r79828 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-06 09:33:44 -0500 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add JP. ........ r79862 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-06 15:27:59 -0500 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line Fix syntax. ........ r79875 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 17:18:23 -0500 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line More NaN consistency doc fixes. ........ r79923 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-10 06:15:24 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line #8360: skipTest was added in 2.7. ........ r79924 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-10 06:16:59 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line #8346: update version. ........ r79941 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-10 20:39:36 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line Two grammar fixes ........ r79942 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-10 20:40:06 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line Punctuation fix ........ r79943 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-10 20:40:30 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various items ........ r79945 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-10 20:40:49 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line name correct ........ r79947 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-10 20:44:13 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line Remove distutils section ........ r79951 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-11 07:48:08 -0500 (Sun, 11 Apr 2010) | 1 line Two typo fixes ........ r79952 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-11 07:49:37 -0500 (Sun, 11 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add two items ........	2010-04-11 16:12:57 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	42dfeec893	Merged revisions 79871 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79871 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 23:10:55 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 2 lines Use consistent spelling for nans (thanks Georg for noticing). ........	2010-04-06 22:13:37 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	603b7535cc	Merged revisions 79858 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79858 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 20:50:03 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 3 lines Issue #7947: Clarify math module behaviour for IEEE 754 special cases, along with a number of additional minor edits and typo corrections. ........	2010-04-06 19:55:03 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	fc21e01b63	remove obsolete sentence	2010-01-16 14:46:27 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	45f992a45e	Merged revisions 76878 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76878 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-19 11:07:23 +0000 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 3 lines Issue #3366: Add error function and complementary error function to math module. ........	2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	664b511c0a	Merged revisions 76861 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76861 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-16 20:13:40 +0000 (Wed, 16 Dec 2009) | 3 lines Issue #3366: Add expm1 function to math module. Thanks Eric Smith for testing on Windows. ........	2009-12-16 20:23:42 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	05d2e08401	Merged revisions 76755 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76755 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-11 17:29:33 +0000 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009) | 2 lines Issue #3366: Add lgamma function to math module. ........	2009-12-11 20:17:17 +00:00
Georg Brandl	495f7b5adb	Merged revisions 75365,75394,75402-75403,75418,75459,75484,75592-75596,75600,75602-75607,75610-75613,75616-75617,75623,75627,75640,75647,75696,75795 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r75365 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 22:16:16 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix broken links found by "make linkcheck". scipy.org seems to be done right now, so I could not verify links going there. ........ r75394 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-13 20:10:59 +0200 (Di, 13 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r75402 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:51:48 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7125: fix typo. ........ r75403 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:57:46 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system(). ........ r75418 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 20:48:32 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7116: str.join() takes an iterable. ........ r75459 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-17 10:57:43 +0200 (Sa, 17 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix refleaks in _ctypes PyCSimpleType_New, which fixes the refleak seen in test___all__. ........ r75484 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-18 09:58:12 +0200 (So, 18 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix missing word. ........ r75592 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:05:48 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix punctuation. ........ r75593 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:06:49 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Revert unintended change. ........ r75594 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:02 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r75595 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:56 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix duplicate target. ........ r75596 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 10:05:04 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Add a new directive marking up implementation details and start using it. ........ r75600 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:01:46 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Make it more robust. ........ r75602 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Document new directive. ........ r75603 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:23 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Allow short form with text as argument. ........ r75604 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:36:50 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix stylesheet for multi-paragraph impl-details. ........ r75605 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:48:10 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Use "impl-detail" directive where applicable. ........ r75606 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:00:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #6324: membership test tries iteration via __iter__. ........ r75607 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:04:09 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7088: document new functions in signal as Unix-only. ........ r75610 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:27:24 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Reorder __slots__ fine print and add a clarification. ........ r75611 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:42:32 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7035: improve docs of the various <method>_errors() functions, and give them docstrings. ........ r75612 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:52:15 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7156: document curses as Unix-only. ........ r75613 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:54:35 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #6977: getopt does not support optional option arguments. ........ r75616 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:17:05 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Add proper references. ........ r75617 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:20:55 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Make printout margin important. ........ r75623 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-23 10:14:44 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7188: fix optionxform() docs. ........ r75627 | fred.drake | 2009-10-23 15:04:51 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines add further note about what's passed to optionxform ........ r75640 | neil.schemenauer | 2009-10-23 21:58:17 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines Improve some docstrings in the 'warnings' module. ........ r75647 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-24 12:04:19 +0200 (Sa, 24 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r75696 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-25 21:25:43 +0100 (So, 25 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix a demo. ........ r75795 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 16:10:22 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix a strange mis-edit. ........	2009-10-27 15:28:25 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	56e0966afa	Fix versionadded for py3k math.gamma	2009-10-01 16:13:29 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	12c4bdb0e8	Merged revisions 75117 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r75117 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-28 19:54:55 +0100 (Mon, 28 Sep 2009) | 3 lines Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module. (lgamma, erf and erfc to follow). ........	2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl	a6053b4846	Merged revisions 74542,74544-74548,74550,74554-74555,74578,74588,74590,74603,74616-74618,74621 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r74542 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-23 23:28:56 +0200 (So, 23 Aug 2009) | 1 line Restore alphabetic order. ........ r74544 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:12:30 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. ........ r74545 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:14:29 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias. ........ r74546 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:20:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6725: spell "namespace" consistently. ........ r74547 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:22:05 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6718: fix example. ........ r74548 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:24:27 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6677: mention "deleting" as an alias for removing files. ........ r74550 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:48:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories. ........ r74554 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 20:59:02 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line Typo fix. ........ r74555 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 21:02:43 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6787: reference fix. ........ r74578 | tarek.ziade | 2009-08-29 15:33:21 +0200 (Sa, 29 Aug 2009) | 1 line fixed #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts pipe ........ r74588 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 10:35:01 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6803: fix old name. ........ r74590 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 13:51:53 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line #6801: fix copy-paste oversight. ........ r74603 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-31 08:38:29 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 1 line other -> others where multiple arguments are accepted. ........ r74616 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:46:26 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line #6808: clarification. ........ r74617 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:53:37 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line #6765: hint that log(x, base) is not very sophisticated. ........ r74618 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:00:47 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line #6810: add a link to the section about frame objects instead of just a description where to find it. ........ r74621 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:06:03 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line #6638: fix wrong parameter name and markup a class. ........	2009-09-01 08:11:14 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	5a55b61a2a	Issue #6354: More fixes for code examples involving the repr of a float.	2009-06-28 20:59:42 +00:00
Georg Brandl	cd7f32b6cd	Signature documentation style update, modules J, K, L and M.	2009-06-08 09:13:45 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	60fe6b045a	Fix header level for 'Constants' section of math.rst	2009-06-02 12:53:15 +00:00